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Date Posted: 19:15:41 11/12/04 Fri
Author: Joe
Subject: WWGD? (What would Gandhi do?)
In reply to: ts 's message, "Gandhi and Arafat- A contrast in Leadership" on 14:45:21 11/12/04 Fri

(My nonexpert opinion based on my nonexpert reading of history)

Gandhi, along with Martin Luther King, is credited with applying the Sermon On the Mount to bring about a nonviolent solution to a social or political problem. Yet, after Indian independence, when faced with a confrontation with Islam, he was forced to accept a less than ideal solution (the creation of Pakistan). He put his own life on the line (hunger strike) as a personal appeal to try to bring about reconciliation, but it failed. The hostility between India and Pakistan has been a constant and now involves nuclear arms, and Pakistan is a hotspot for Al Qaeda, terrorism and aiding nuclear proliferation among rogue states like N. Korea.

It seems that even Gandhi reached his limitations when confronted with the problems posed by the rise of Islam.

Like many in the liberal parts of the US and Western Europe, Gandhi would probably have opposed even the US deposing the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11. But what would Gandhi have proposed as an alternative? What would Gandhi propose as an alternative to the war on terror today?

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Re: WWGD? (What would Gandhi do?) -- ts, 22:31:22 11/12/04 Fri